first_right: get the first n words of a string

In hartmast/concordances: A Tool for Reading Corpus Export Files Into R

get the first n words of a string

Description

This function returns the first n words of a string (by default, five). This can, for example, be helpful for extracting words from the right context column of a concordance data frame.

Usage

first_right(x, column, n = 5, omit_punctuation = TRUE)

Arguments

x	A vector or data frame.
column	If x is a data frame, the number or name of the column.
n	number of words to return. Default is 5.
omit_punctuation	If TRUE (the default), strings consisting exclusively of non-alphanumeric characters will be omitted.

Value

A vector containing the last n words of each vector element.

hartmast/concordances documentation built on April 19, 2023, 9:39 p.m.